Georgia felt while Ibsen had largely written Hedda Gabler with the intention of getting inside the human mind, he had also advocated women’s rights as a by-product of his work.

She said: “He was very accurate in his portrayal of what a lot of women were feeling and you can see that in the reaction to the play at the time because it was adopted by suffragettes.

“There’s also a comment I really like from a Victorian woman who saw the play – ‘Hedda is all of us’ – which embodies the female reaction to it.”

Georgia feels Hedda Gabler remains a “shocking and radical” play and believes it is hard to credit that it was written in the late 19th Century.

She said: “That’s what’s so amazing about it and my conclusion was that it is a feminist play, but in a way that’s unexpected.

“It’s easy to see it or read it and think clearly this is a woman who doesn’t fit society’s expectations and she rebels against them, but I think it’s more complex than that.

“There’s a lot about Hedda’s character that puts her in this position and causes her to suffer in the way she does and I think it’s that, along with the role society plays, which makes it feminist.

“She is complex and she’s not that sympathetic. She’s tragic, but she also dislikeable because she’s cool, manipulative and controlling.

“To write a female character who isn’t likeable or sympathetic, but is multi-faceted and three-dimensional is ultimately why it’s feminist because she’s being portrayed as a human being rather than just a woman in a specific role.”